Lean Startup Conference New York 2017

Ken Skistimas is Design Director at GE Digital where he leads the Predix UI Design System team. His team creates and maintains a scalable and extensible design language for consumption across hundreds of applications that connect people, data, and machines built on Predix, GE’s Industrial Internet platform.
Before joining GE, Ken led the User Experience team for the Salesforce Sales Cloud, their largest product. He was heavily involved with the design and launch of Lightning Experience, Salesforce’s most significant redesign since its original launch, and contributed many core patterns to the Lightning Design System.
With a background in graphic design and a highly collaborative nature, Ken is a big proponent of getting ideas down early by sketching, socializing frequently with product and development teams, and iterating quickly to deliver exceptional user experiences.